Found 4 items, similar to ruby.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: ruby
rubi
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ruby
batu delima
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ruby
ruby
adj : having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
[syn:
red,
reddish,
ruddy,
blood-red,
carmine,
cerise,
cherry,
cherry-red,
crimson,
ruby-red,
scarlet]
ruby
n 1: a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished
and is valued as a precious gem
2: a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a
gemstone and in lasers
3: a deep and vivid red [syn:
crimson,
deep red]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ruby
Ruby
\Ru"by\, n.; pl.
Rubies. [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL.
rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber.
See
Rouge,
red.]
1. (Min.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes
verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and
hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of
corundum.
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Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there
are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of
spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet.
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Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white.
--Chaucer.
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2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
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The natural ruby of your cheeks. --Shak.
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3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence,
a red blain or carbuncle.
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4. (Print.) See
Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
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5. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of South American humming birds of
the genus
Clytol[ae]ma. The males have a ruby-colored
throat or breast.
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Ruby of arsenic,
Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy
substance of a red color and a variable composition, but
always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; --
called also
ruby sulphur.
Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende
or sphalerite.
Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under
Red.
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Ruby
\Ru"by\, a.
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
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Ruby
\Ru"by\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Rubied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rubying.]
To make red; to redden. [R.] --Pope.
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